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I do not believe that a single Twitter account, from some faceless, vapid entity (not verifiably connected to a real person) meaningfully impacted the election.

I do not believe that a single Twitter account, from some faceless, vapid entity (not verifiably connected to a real person) meaningfully impacted the election. Also, this argument ignores bots that were pro-HRC and anti-Trump.

jimrandomh 9y ago
A single fake/propaganda account doesn't have much impact, but this was part of a large disinformation campaign; the point of this is to analyze one facet of that campaign, to get a sense for how it worked as a whole. (As for pro-HRC/anti-Trump bots, I haven't seen any, nor have I heard of a foreign state mass-producing them.)
- __s 9y ago
  https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Clinton+astroturfing+campaign https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Clinton+astroturfing+campaign https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/4fupos/paid_digital_astroturfing_effort_by_correct_the https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/4fupos...
  - kurthr 9y ago
    Huh... if those reports are true, they look like they were financed by HRC and not by a FOREIGN government. Do you have an example of the latter? That is the comparable example requested.
    - __s 9y ago
      I do not, should've mentioned these don't disagree with your foreign government point Foreign aide seems masked behind donations to the Clinton Foundation tho: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jul/07/fact-checking-donations-clinton-foundation http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jul/07/... Trump's even worse on this front; this is not in any way condoning him. I was more watching this dirt during the DNC primary
kurthr 9y ago
Great, you say that. So show me a pro-HRC bot with 130k followers on Twitter. Are you saying that bots with more followers are less relevant? I had learned that impact was ~N^2. Are you saying that only "meaningful" impacts on an election are bad? Is that only 10k votes or or 10? Are you really against all the Photo ID, registration, and voting controls since there are only some 10s of illegal in-person voters found in the last 17 years? http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/665966.pdf http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/665966.pdf Do you think that funding of election campaigns by foreign entities (and governments) is OK, even though it's against election laws? Why?
- dogruck 9y ago
  Huh? You seem angry.

jimrandomh 9y ago

A single fake/propaganda account doesn't have much impact, but this was part of a large disinformation campaign; the point of this is to analyze one facet of that campaign, to get a sense for how it worked as a whole. (As for pro-HRC/anti-Trump bots, I haven't seen any, nor have I heard of a foreign state mass-producing them.)

__s 9y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Clinton+astroturfing+campaign https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Clinton+astroturfing+campaign https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/4fupos/paid_digital_astroturfing_effort_by_correct_the https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/4fupos...
- kurthr 9y ago
  Huh... if those reports are true, they look like they were financed by HRC and not by a FOREIGN government. Do you have an example of the latter? That is the comparable example requested.
  - __s 9y ago
    I do not, should've mentioned these don't disagree with your foreign government point Foreign aide seems masked behind donations to the Clinton Foundation tho: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jul/07/fact-checking-donations-clinton-foundation http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jul/07/... Trump's even worse on this front; this is not in any way condoning him. I was more watching this dirt during the DNC primary

kurthr 9y ago

Great, you say that. So show me a pro-HRC bot with 130k followers on Twitter. Are you saying that bots with more followers are less relevant? I had learned that impact was ~N^2. Are you saying that only "meaningful" impacts on an election are bad? Is that only 10k votes or or 10? Are you really against all the Photo ID, registration, and voting controls since there are only some 10s of illegal in-person voters found in the last 17 years? http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/665966.pdf http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/665966.pdf Do you think that funding of election campaigns by foreign entities (and governments) is OK, even though it's against election laws? Why?

dogruck 9y ago
Huh? You seem angry.